Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.